At the heart of REDD+: A role for local people in monitoring forests?

Conservation Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 158-167

  Danielsen, Finn ^a   Skutsch, Margaret ^b,c   Burgess, Neil D ^d,e   Jensen, Per Moestrup ^f   Andrianandrasana, Herizo ^g   Karky, Bhaskar ^h   Lewis, Richard ^g   Lovett, Jon C ^c   Massao, John ⁱ   Ngaga, Yonika ^j   Phartiyal, Pushkin ^k   Poulsen, Michael Køie ^a   Singh, S P ^l   Solis, Silvia ^b   Sørensen, Marten ^f   Tewari, Ashish ^m   Young, Richard ^g,n   Zahabu, Eliakimu ^j  

^a Nordisk Fond for Miljø og Udvikling   (Denmark)

^b INSTITUTO DE MATEMÁTICAS   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e WORLD WILDLIFE FUND   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^g DURRELL WILDLIFE CONSERVATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^h INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR INTEGRATED MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT   (Nepal)

ⁱ Sokoine University of Agriculture ^*  (Tanzania)

^j SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Tanzania)

^k CHEA   (India)

^l H N B GARHWAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^m KUMAUN UNIVERSITY   (India)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Climate change; Co benefits; Community based management; Forest degradation; Governance; Locally based monitoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952942549     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2010.00159.x     Document Type: Article

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